Shared interest in a more productive tomorrow.

The Challenges of Realizing a Global Navigation Capability

- or - Being Prepared is not just for Boy Scouts!

Charles Schue

President, UrsaNav, Inc.

ION International Technical Meeting – January 30, 2012

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- Wikimedia Commons

- Wikimedia Commons

GPS: FOC 1995 GLONASS: FOC 1995 / FOC2 2011 COMPASS: FOC 2020 GALILEO: FOC 2020

The Sky is Covered with Navigational Capability!

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Over Ten Years of Studies and Reports All With the Same Conclusions

Hint: GPS is vulnerable. eLoran is the best backup.

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TRUST – NOT!

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Backup Capability

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“Our reliance on space tempts potential adversaries to see it as a vulnerability to be exploited.” – Ambassador Gregory Schulte, Deputy Asst Sec DoD (Acting) for Space Policy, November 2010.

“A practical, seamless, near-transparent backup for GPS effectively reduces the risk of GPS being attacked.”

– Business Cost Analysis Refresh, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, July 2009.

APNT – From Supplemental to Redundant

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- Ministry of Land Transport and Maritime Affairs, Maritime Traffic Facilities Division, ROK.

GPS Jammed – Affected 300 km Area

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• Eighteen month effort: – 31 civil and military Federal agencies – 200+ people

• Provide more effective and efficient PNT capabilities to USG • Vision, Strategy, Vectors and Recommendations approved June 2008

Without Enterprise

Architecture Strategy

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Should-Be Architecture

Evolved Baseline (EBL)

As-Is Architecture System Emphasis

Architecture Emphasis

Now 5 Years 10 Years 15 Years 20 Years

Near & Mid -Term Decisions Guided by Architecture

Based on Long-Term

Vision

RITA

FAA

FHWA

FRA

DOC

NIST

DHS

USCG

DOI

DOS

NCO

NASA

JPDO

NII

USAF

AFSPC

SMC

USA

USMC

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NGA

NSA

STRAT

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AT&L/S&T

PBFA

SAF/USA

NSSO

SMDC

NRL

RITA

FAA

FHWA

FRA

DOC

NIST

DHS

USCG

DOI

DOS

NCO

NASA

JPDO

NII

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AFSPC

SMC

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AT&L/S&T

PBFA

SAF/USA

NSSO

SMDC

NRL

National PNT Architecture Implementation Plan

Source - National Security Space Office (Unclassified) APR2010

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There were an estimated 100,000 jammers in the USA in 2009.

Quiet Please!

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* Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things

Want, not Need, Drives Technological Innovation *

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Fisherman Complain NATO Joint Warrior Exercise Suspended

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Courtesy of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Areas Impacted by DOD GPS Testing

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Is Resistance Futile?

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Moonlighting near NWK

Murphy Never Sleeps!

Leaving a switch on in San Diego

Watching TV in Half Moon Bay

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Murphy Never Sleeps!

April 2010 – March 2011: WAAS Gone Wild! Galaxy 15 GEO Satellite Communications

Problems Affected Northwest Alaska

Losing control in North America

May 2011: SVN49/PRN01 has been officially taken off active service, after problems surrounding signal transmission couldn’t be resolved. The satellite was never fully integrated into the active GPS satellite constellation, but the signal was still being tracked by the International GNSS Service. The signal data was being stored and recorded to be used by scientists and engineers. This data will still be used in order to help make future improvements to satellites and signal transmission. The satellite was being tracked by an IGS station in Tahiti, where the signal was reportedly switched off at around 14:38 GPS time.

Mixing up signals in space

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Got LF?

LF – A Proven Alternative

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Please Attend Session A2.5 for information on LF Alternatives for PNT & Data.